Quote Originally Posted by kiltimabar
It appears that when you pleat to the line (stripe), there are several choices (depending on how complex the tartan is) of which colors to hide, and which to display. When giving such instructions to kiltmakers, I suppose you would have to be very specific as to which stripe you wanted to have it pleated to and how much of each pleat would show. Sounds like that might be even more complicated than pleating to the set.
You are right. When ordering my 'Bruce of Kinnaird' from Geoffrey (Tailor), the instructions as to which stripe I wanted were indicated to the kiltmaker by reference to the thread count. There was no other way as I had very firm thoughts as to how it HAD to be done!